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Brief survey of recent Second Language Acquisition studies about ‘teacher talk’ – how teachers communicate with non-native speakers. Provides recommendations for engaging international students in the classroom.

Duke librarians decided to reach students in Blackboard rather than waiting for students to approach them. Working with faculty, they added “Library Links”, including contact information, library resources, social bookmarking and subject-specific databases to course sites, later using LibGuides and later automating the process using ‘on the fly’ generated content linked to the subject code assigned to each course.

Interesting insight into freshman students and their understanding of IL (unclear) and IL skill level (90% are proficient, according to the ILT). Students gravitate towards people they know or trust for search help, and do not often utilize help files or online tutorials. Small sample but well-designed study with interesting implications for research and practice.

This article provides information on forms of digital outreach. The four types of outreach discussed are blogs, RSS, e-news, and alerts. Huwe discusses the best ways to incorporate these newer possibilities for outreach into a library program.

This is an author-developed model for understanding student information literacy experiences using four pre-existing frameworks: Kulthau’s Information Seeking Process, Hayes’ recursive writing process, Dervin’s Sense Making Approach, and the community of practice approach to scholarly communication. Students are seen as making progress in each of the three dimensions. Discussion of the model includes its correlation with the ACRL General IL standards in developing a matrix for IL throughout one undergraduate curriculum, and also in using it to rebuild a basic IL level tutorial.

Exploration for evidence of the development of information literacy in the professional and academic literature. Increasing interest in IL coincides with the emergence of the Internet and increasing Web use by professionals. Publication of increasing numbers of monographs and dissertations also indicates growing interest.